Reinforced rubbers

M. Borowc2ak and A. G. Causa, "Eatigue Behaviour of Cord-Reinforced Rubber Composites," Conference Proceedings ACS, RubberDivision, Louisville, Ky., May 1989. 

Carbon blacks are typical fillers for reinforcing rubber. An extensive literature has been devoted to the manufacture, structure, and characterization of carbon blacks, as well to their effects as fillers in polymers. Some specific and more detailed information can be found in Refs. [38,48]. 

The hose was made of reinforced rubber, the wrong material. A stainless steel hose should have been used. 

Water and brine pumps may be isolated with flexible connectors. For small-bore pipes, these can be ordinary reinforced rubber hose, suitably fastened at each end. For larger pipes, corrugated or bellows connectors of various types can be obtained. In all cases, the main pipe must be securely fixed close to the connector, so that the latter absorbs all the vibration. Flexible connectors for the refrigerant usually take the form of corrugated metal hose, wrapped and braided. They should be placed as close to the compressor as possible. 

Proper reinforcement of rubber matrix using hllers can be achieved only if there exists adequate adhesion between the hller and the mbber. Rubber-mbber adhesion and rubber-hller adhesion both without and with adhesion promoters have been studied extensively [125-127]. Fiber-matrix adhesion in short fiber-rubber composites is always a field of extensive research. If the fibers are not bonded properly with the rubber matrix, fibers will shde past each other under tension deforming the matrix, thereby reducing the strength properties. In the case of short fiber-reinforced rubber composites, loads are not directly applied to the fibers, but are apphed to the matrix. To obtain a high-performance composite, the load must be effectively transferred to the fibers, which is possible only when the fiber-matrix interphase is sufficiently strong. In addition, the adhesion between the fiber and the matrix should be such that the failure occurs in the matrix rather than at the interphase [92]. 

Foldi, A.P., Design and applications of short fibre reinforced rubbers, in Short Fiber-Polymer Composites, De, S.K. and White, J.R. (Eds.), Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, 1996, Chapter 9. 

In particular it can be shown that the dynamic flocculation model of stress softening and hysteresis fulfils a plausibility criterion, important, e.g., for finite element (FE) apphcations. Accordingly, any deformation mode can be predicted based solely on uniaxial stress-strain measurements, which can be carried out relatively easily. From the simulations of stress-strain cycles at medium and large strain it can be concluded that the model of cluster breakdown and reaggregation for prestrained samples represents a fundamental micromechanical basis for the description of nonlinear viscoelasticity of filler-reinforced rubbers. Thereby, the mechanisms of energy storage and dissipation are traced back to the elastic response of tender but fragile filler clusters [24]. 

Above a critical hller concentration, the percolation threshold, the properties of the reinforced rubber material change drastically, because a hller-hUer network is estabhshed. This results, for example, in an overproportional increase of electrical conductivity of a carbon black-hUed compound. The continuous disruption and restorahon of this hller network upon deformation is well visible in the so-called Payne effect [20,21], as represented in Figure 29.5. It illustrates the strain-dependence of the modulus and the strain-independent contributions to the complex shear or tensUe moduli for carbon black-hlled compounds and sUica-hUed compounds. 

A belt filter consists of an endless reinforced rubber belt, with drainage hole along its centre, which supports the filter medium. The belt passes over a stationary suction box, into which the filtrate is sucked. Slurry and wash water are sprayed on to the top of the belt. 

The reinforcing rubber and fabric around the bead in the rim area of a tyre to prevent chafing of the tyre by the rim. 

Silica reinforced rubber, 22 703 Silica sheets, 22 383-385 Silica-silane system, 22 377-378 Silica sol-gel fiber processing, 23 80 Silica sols, 22 383, 473-474 applications of, 22 394 modification of, 22 393-394 preparation of, 22 392-393 properties of, 22 391-392 purification of, 22 393 Silica, solubility in steam, 23 212-213 Silica-supported activated manganese dioxide, 76 568... 

Carbon black (soot). It is obtained by the incomplete combustion of natural gas or liquid hydrocarbons. The particle size of carbon black is very small its applications are mainly in rubber industry (to strengthen and reinforce rubber) and also as a pigment in the preparation of inks, etc. 

Polymer International 51,No.7, July 2002, p.601-6 PHYSICAL STUDIES OF FOAMED REINFORCED RUBBER COMPOSITES. PART I. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FOAMED ETHYLENE-PROPYLENE-DIENE TERPOLYMER AND NITRILE-BUTADIENE RUBBER COMPOSITES... 

Charges of diams from one to 2V2 inches were successfully prepd. They were formed in reinforced rubber hose of wall thicknesses varying from 1/16 to 1/4 inch (Ref 1)... 

Keywords Layered double hydroxides Layered silicates Nanocomposites Organic modification Reinforcement Rubber Rubber curatives... 

Resorcinol is used primarily in the rubber industry for tyres and reinforced rubber products (conveyer belts, driving belts) and in high-quality wood adhesives, which are made from resorcinol, phenol and fonnaldehyde. It is also used in the preparation of dyes and pharmaceuticals, as a cross-linking agent for neoprene and a rubber tackifier, and in cosmetics (Lewis, 1993 Schmiedel Decker, 1993 Krumenacker et al., 1995). 

Xue, G. et al. The Reinforcement Mechanism of Polyester Fiber-Reinforced Rubber, J. Appl. Polym. Sci., submitted... 

We restrict, in this paper, the discussions related to the reinforcement of elastomers to the investigation of a single filler, carbon black. We, moreover, mostly focus on the part played by surface chemical interactions in the properties of filler reinforced rubbers. 

Natural rubber exhibits unique physical and chemical properties. Rubbers stress-strain behavior exhibits the Mullins effect and the Payne effect. It strain crystallizes. Under repeated tensile strain, many filler reinforced rubbers exhibit a reduction in stress after the initial extension, and this is the so-called Mullins Effect which is technically understood as stress decay or relaxation. The phenomenon is named after the British rubber scientist Leonard Mullins, working at MBL Group in Leyland, and can be applied for many purposes as an instantaneous and irreversible softening of the stress-strain curve that occurs whenever the load increases beyond... 

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